Standout, breakout

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

Over my decades-long writing life, I’ve been a reader, judge and (sometimes) an organiser for many novel-writing competitions, including the Harry Bowling Prize, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s

Review of reviews: Books

Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism

What’s in a Year: A Countryman’s Tale Through ...